NKA Foundation – Call for artists and presenters – Ghana, Mali

International Land Art Workshop (Ghana)

February 10-24, 2012
Venue: Abetenim Arts Village near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

October 5-19, 2012
Venue: Sang Arts Village, Sang near Tamale in Northern Region of Ghana

International Land Art Workshop is a two-week group residency. It is designed to bring together creative persons such as artists, architects and engineers to create works by use of materials from the environment. The participants will live and work together in an Arts Village in a rural township for knowledge sharing and cross-fertilization of skills over the two-week period.

Organizers will provide accommodation and food; an accepted applicant will contribute participation fee of $100 / €70 toward food.  The international participant is responsible for own travel costs and proposed project.

To apply, send CV, statement/sketch of your proposed work, and a sample of your existing work to info@nkafoundation.org/ nkaprojects@gmx.com.

Community Arts Project Residency (Ghana)

Nka Foundation invites submissions of creative projects throughout the year that in some way involve the communities it is a part.

The community Arts Project Residency is a part of ongoing projects of tapping local resources for sustainable human capital development through a focus on the arts. Thus, Nka Foundation has an open door to the multiplicity of expressions in the arts from around the world. Artistic persons or teams in diverse fields of the arts (visual, theatre, music, literary, film/new media, arts education, arts therapy, philosophy, cultural history, etc), and intersections of the arts with architecture/engineering are all welcome to apply for residency.  Length of project residencies varies from a few weeks to several months, according to projects.

Cost:  Free accommodation in an Arts Village setting is provided. The international participants are responsible for their own travel costs and proposed project. It is suggested that participants apply for travel grants through their national art councils or other sources.

Deadline:  November 2, February 2, May 2 and August 2.

To apply, e-mail details on what your plan to accomplish with Nka Foundation, your CV, and examples of your work to info@nkafoundation.org.

Media Arts Symposium (Bamako)

Bamako Symposium 2012 will bring together artists, theorists and cultural entrepreneurs from around the world to interact and exchange dialogues on the useful and non-useful impacts of media arts on the global marketplace of ideas.

With the practical acts and theoretical presentations, the symposium aims to promote critical dialogues on the best practices around the world on how the media arts feed civilizations. It asks:  How are the media arts worldwide feeding civilizations? What are the implications for tapping the abundant local resources in Mali in the 21st century?

Nka Foundation and Balani’s Association call for proposals for theoretical presentations and practical acts such as workshops, mini-projects, and artistic interventions involving the diversity of expressions in and applications via digital arts, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual arts, internet  arts, interactive arts technologies, computer robotics, and the arts as biotechnology in society.

Interested individuals and collaborative groups should apply by submitting the abstract of their proposed paper or practical act (200 words maximum) in English or French with a brief biography (200 words maximum) of the presenter to Kadiatou Dembele at  dembele_kadi2000@yahoo.fr, and copy the e-mail to balanise@yahoo.fr and info@nkafoundation.org.

Nka Foundation
Box Up 1115, Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi (Ghana)
Nka Foundation, 04 BP 399, Ouagadougou 04 (Burkina Faso)

www.nkafoundation.org